Featured Primary Sources

Sortable List of All Featured Primary Sources

Gilder Lehrman’s Featured Primary Sources draw from the wealth of letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, and photographs in the Gilder Lehrman Collection, a unique archive of more than 60,000 American historical documents. Each Featured Primary Resource has an introduction, transcript, image, and questions for discussion. You can access them within each Sub-era in the History by Era section of the website, or see the entire list below, filtering the results by Era, Theme, or Creator.